The short walk that ended apartheid

It is twenty years since Mandela ended his twenty-seven-year confinement as a political prisoner. As South Africa celebrates, we look back at his life

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela too frail to attend walk reenactment

News Thu 11 Feb 2010, AT 15:38

Former president absent as ANC leaders gather to remember his historic walk to freedom

Jacob Zuma and Eugene de Kock

Eugene de Kock ‘looking for a presidential pardon’

News Wed 6 Jan 2010, AT 07:17

The notorious apartheid era police chief is alleged to have met Zuma in jail

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp

District 9 is one long sales pitch for South Africa’s arms industry

News Mon 7 Sep 2009, AT 16:52

The cutting edge weaponry shown off in Neill Blomkamp’s film has its origins in the apartheid years

Skin

News Thu 23 Jul 2009, AT 13:13

True story of Sandra Laing, a black girl born to white parents in apartheid-era South Africa

Picture Past: May 10, Nelson Mandela